Ellie Ismailidou

Ellie Ismailidou is an award-winning lawyer-turned-journalist, writer, anchor and producer specializing in business and finance. In her current role as Supervising Producer & Anchor, Ellie oversees Barron's and MarketWatch video airing on the Wall Street Journal Digital Network. She is also the anchor of Explainomics, a scripted original video series explaining complex finance and investing concepts through graphics and animation. In 2018, Explainomics won a Telly award in the online non-scripted video series category. Ellie also won Columbia Journalism School's Philip Greer Memorial award for outstanding financial writing. Ellie is a member of Fordham University's Adjunct Faculty, teaching Multimedia Journalism - news photography, audio, video - for students in the Journalism Major.